Hi, all. I recently had a problem crop up at my office - text within a .cdr file that I was working on cooperatively with a co-worker displayed differently on our computers. It turned out that we had different versions of the main font that was used in the file; they looked more or less the same, but subtle differences in the versions added up, resulting in a noticeably different look when it was opened on each of our PCs.
So, my question is, are different font versions a common problem? I wouldn't have thought to look for this as the source of the difficulty, but someone over at the CorelDraw newsgroup suggested that I look at the "modified" dates on each version of the font, and sure enough they were different. Once my coworker and I had the same version of the font, the problem went away.
If you both use CorelDRAW then the differens of fonts would only differ if you have different versions of CorelDRAW I guess. But I have never heard though that different versions of CorelDRAW would have different font versions. I guess someone from Corel could answer about this, or some other great wizkid/girl could enlighten us. That said, yes generally different font version, regardless of Computer versions can be very common. Especially among graphic designers working with fonts.
Thanks Foster,Although I had not heard about this issue regarding different versions of coreldraw, I did have a hunch it would be as you said. Great to learn something new.